Actually left the house last night for an excursion into Hollywood to the Lava Lounge to see Kelp. Ian knows Todd and Paul, the bassist and guitarist, from the Meta days. The drummer, also from Meta, recognized Ian, but no one remembers his name.

Kelp plays “surf music,” the kind of sound that would go with an Endless Summer movie. I can’t help wondering if the music conjures up visions of sand, sun and sea out of itself or because it’s called “surf music.” Just when I had decided it didn’t really matter, it was all happy music that made me smile, they played a song named Godsplitter after the brutal headaches experienced by the main character in Craig Clevenger‘s book, The Contortionist’s Handbook. Aggressive, angry surf music evidently is not an oxymoron.